8/30/2010
Bella Books is pleased to announce the acquisition of Tats by Layce Gardner. Gardner is best known for her screenplay of Prison of Secrets, which starred Stephanie Zimbalist and appeared on Lifetime. Tats is the kind of book we find difficult to describe: it's a love story, it's irreverent, it's unexpected and it's hilarious. Not one of us could stop reading and we're pleased to be adding it to our catalog.
Bella author KG MacGregor was interviewed at MyQmunity Book Talk with host Robert Jaquay. Jaquay's thoughtful review of Photographs of Claudia says, "If you find her writing and her storytelling as fine as I did, then you're in for a treat. There are twelve books before this one, and a new one on the way."
Nat Burns (House of Cards) was privileged to interview and write the cover story of August's Lesbian News, featuring country music star Chely Wright and her headline-making coming out in a part of the music industry where openly LGBT performers are far and few between. Summing up the experience, Burns said, "Her journey out of the lie and into the light touched me deeply, especially when I think of those who may have chosen a different, more destructive road."
8/15/2010
After a hiatus of more than 10 years, Jaye Maiman is taking up her pen. "I had about a decade of raising kids and dealing with parents who unfortunately are both gone now. It made it impossible to stay with Robin Miller and live in her world while being able to give Robin her due," she told Lori Hahn. Read the entire interview at Our Big Gayborhood.
Kate Christie has created a book trailer for her novel Solstice. "What I love about Kate's video is that it mimics the experience of a book using printed words and images of the setting as Kate envisioned when writing the book." -- Karin Kallmaker. What do you think?
Producer/director/writer Linda Andersson has teamed up with writer Sara Marx for the novelization of Linda's hit web series Return of the Seer. Starring Deborah Stewart, the series features a lesbian clarivoyant police officer. Bella will release the first book, InSight of the Seer, in April 2011. Deborah Stewart will be a guest star on an upcoming episode of Rizzoli & Isles with Angie Harmon.
Mary Griggs--training consultant, foodie, do-it-yourself whiz--is now also a Bella author. We're not sure where she finds the time to write, but her debut romance novel, Unbroken Circle, is sure to be the first of many great reads.
One of the women we love every year is Ellen Hart, so we applaud her inclusion in Go Magazine's Class of 2010 "100 Women We Love." Ellen and the other members of the Minnesota Crime Wave have been producing a web series about writing, crime and telling stories.
The "L" of Lipstick and Dipstick, Gina Daggett, will be releasing her debut novel Jukebox in November with Bella Books. She's blogged about the history of the story and her plans for a feature film. "I've been working on Jukebox since the beginning of time, it seems; well, at least the beginning of my lesbian time..." Read the blog.
She's a character that immediately captures attention and inspires the imagination: a lesbian constable with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Danielle Renaud is the creation of new author Nadine LaPierre. The first book in the series set in LaPierre's beloved Halifax, Nova Scotia, will release in 2011.
You can listen to an extensive interview with Spinsters Ink author C.M. Harris at MyQmunity Book Talk with host Robert Jaquay. Jaquay's review of The Children of Mother Glory concludes, "Somewhere, (and I dare say everywhere), in this grand book, we as GLBT folk can find ourselves and bear witness to our own struggle for peace within."
The "L" of Lipstick and Dipstick, Gina Daggett, will be releasing her debut novel Jukebox in November with Bella Books. She's blogged about the history of the story and her plans for a feature film. "I've been working on Jukebox since the beginning of time, it seems; well, at least the beginning of my lesbian time..." 